Peter writes "You may find it interesting to know that I've just released a port of MAME for SonyEricsson's latest P800 smartphone. It's called EMame" 'Cuz if there is one thing my cel phone was lacking, it's asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, and Joust. Delicious.
Games for eMAME
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Oculus+Habent
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· Score: 4, Insightful
What we need now is to establish a pay-service for downloading games for eMAME so bored phone owners can peruse a selection of games, buy one, download it and use it immediately.
What do you think, $0.75 per download?
-- That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
Or is this video-games-over the phone thing the geekiest thing you have ever seen?
What the hell is the matter with us? GET AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER ONCE IN A WHILE.
And I say this as a primordial geek from back before there was dirt. (The 70s)
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new way to avoid tickets
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Shymon
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· Score: 4, Funny
"But officer i didn't relize i was speeding, i was too busy playing pac-man on my cell phone."
"using a cell phone is no excu....did you say Pac Man? sweet!..."
Another Reason
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Ashetos
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Another reason why palm and WinCE are on their way out. This what its all about: "convergence".
Ever since getting the P800's cheper brother, the T68i, I've never looked back. Now I no longer have to carry around my palm pilot and keep my appointments and contacts on a tiny, tiny device.
Now you can simultaneously wreck in the game and in the car. Weeeoooooh!
No, a quarter!
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Chazmati
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· Score: 4, Informative
I think $0.25 just like it used to be: nostalgic price for a nostalgic game. Yeah, there was inflation, but there's also Moore's law (meaning today's arcade games are much more sophisticated, even if they're not better for it).
Profit Margin
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perly-king-69
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· Score: 4, Informative
This is probably the exact reason why Orange's MS Smartphones will only run 'signed' applications - ie you must pay Orange/MS before your app will run on their smartphones.
The telecoms operator can then lock-out apps (such as this) which could eat into their profit margin. Downloadable (pay-per-play) mobile games are allegedly going to be next years big thing in the mobile world.
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Re:Profit Margin
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nchip
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You can do this J2ME too.. Operator justs blocks all but their (pay-per-play) apps at their wap gateway. most phones can install applications only over WAP, so the only games user will be able to get are the ones operator sells.
But most operators won't do that, if they have learned anything from the WAP fiasco. Nobody used WAP when you had to pay for everything. You had to pay for both traffic and content. Then operators slowly opened their wap gateways and allowed people to access any wap content in the net. As the result, people are starting use WAP, and the operators are starting to get money from the wap traffic.
charging people for using even the simplest games/apps is a great way to make people feel being ripped of.
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What we need now is to establish a pay-service for downloading games for eMAME so bored phone owners can peruse a selection of games, buy one, download it and use it immediately.
What do you think, $0.75 per download?
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
Or is this video-games-over the phone thing the geekiest thing you have ever seen?
What the hell is the matter with us? GET AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER ONCE IN A WHILE.
And I say this as a primordial geek from back before there was dirt. (The 70s)
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
"using a cell phone is no excu....did you say Pac Man? sweet!..."
Another reason why palm and WinCE are on their way out. This what its all about: "convergence".
Ever since getting the P800's cheper brother, the T68i, I've never looked back. Now I no longer have to carry around my palm pilot and keep my appointments and contacts on a tiny, tiny device.
Now you can simultaneously wreck in the game and in the car. Weeeoooooh!
I think $0.25 just like it used to be: nostalgic price for a nostalgic game. Yeah, there was inflation, but there's also Moore's law (meaning today's arcade games are much more sophisticated, even if they're not better for it).
This is probably the exact reason why Orange's MS Smartphones will only run 'signed' applications - ie you must pay Orange/MS before your app will run on their smartphones. The telecoms operator can then lock-out apps (such as this) which could eat into their profit margin. Downloadable (pay-per-play) mobile games are allegedly going to be next years big thing in the mobile world.
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Math isn't my strong suit, but I'm pretty sure that's three things...
but we will probably see cell phones with nVidia chipsets rivaling our currently mid/high range graphics cards in the next five years.
Heh heh...
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